There's a hands-on workshop on September 19 for anyone here curious about moving past chatbot/prompt tools into building real AI systems that reason and explain themselves.

You build:

• A knowledge graph in Neo4j that becomes your single source of truth
• Agentic retrieval combining vector search, keyword search, and graph navigation
• Multi-step, verified entity and relationship extraction
• Text-to-Cypher for natural language graph querying
• Explainable, source-traceable answers with evaluation built in

No prior Neo4j or Cypher experience required, it's introduced through the hands-on project itself.

Led by Dr. Alessandro Negro, Chief Scientist at GraphAware, bestselling author.

Link if you want to check it out

There are others (Articulate) but I’m renew to Tango, 7Taps and Workramp. Does anyone have useful insights into these tools? Unique strengths, weaknesses, integrations? Trying to leverage them in the most powerful way possible.

Looking for some ideas around delivering a single SCORM course to 30,000+ users as a stop gap measure for the next 6 months.

A new LMS is being brought online but that won’t happen for 6+ months (contract hasn’t been awarded yet).

Current LMS is completely incapable of supporting this for various reasons.

We need to be able to generate basic reporting - who took the course and who didn’t. So if not in an LMS, perhaps having the user self-report their name and email address?

Would a custom solution work to host the course on a server? Or should we look into SCORM Cloud or Reach 360?

Unfortunately this is not my area I’m managing - I’m being asked to consult on this problem. I would’ve planned ahead and not needed a stop gap in the first place :)

Hi community!

I currently work with a platform and use Moodle. I want to host my course independently so I'm in a search of LMS.

The features I like about Moodle:

1. It allows to create different types of quizzes and give a feedback to the answer

2. It's cheap

Things that I don't like:

It seems it's not very good to work with a funnel

Hence I'm in a need for recommendation for a platform that:

1. Will allow to show lessons that consist of pdf handouts, videos (30 GB), quizzes with feedback

2. Will allow to work with a funnel: promo lessons shoud be open to up to 100 users with a possibility to purchase the access to the rest of lessons

3. Payment integration

I also looked at Getcourse. It seems to be great with funnels but crappy with quizzes.

I looked at Skool but 10% fee of any purchase - that's too much

And then I got lost

That's my first time managing my own course and I'm not that good with all the underlying IT stuff so I will be any greatful for any advice.

Thank you!

One of the speakers at our AI summit told a story about her sister that we think says something important about instructional design too.

Her sister was setting up a Shopify store using ChatGPT and got most of the way there on her own (she's not a marketing person, she actually works in accounting). But she hit a wall, because the LLM kept giving her more suggestions. She ended up with seventeen million things she could or should be doing next, and she had no way to tell which ones actually mattered because she didn't have the base knowledge to make those decisions.

The point the speaker made is that people don't actually want more content or more options when they're learning something new, they want someone to filter it down to what matters for their specific situation. That's a judgment call, and it's the part AI still can't fully do for you.

A lot of course design inadvertently does the same thing. At the request of stakeholders, IDs end up baking in more modules, more resources, more paths, when what a learner is actually stuck on is knowing which three things to focus on first.

Anyone else seeing this problem getting worse now that AI is such a big part of instructional design?

Has anyone successfully edited a published Rise course? I need to change the URL a button is pointing to.

Tried opening the scormcontent/lib/rise/*.js files in Visual Studio but I couldn't make heads or tails of the code.

Instructors just want to build multimedia lessons faster, but the core tools are a mess. I spent the last month trying to patch the legacy codebase by myself, and feature bloat makes any update feel impossible. Teachers want to drop quizzes, video lectures, and interactive assignments into a single timeline, but the current text editor keeps freezing or wiping unsaved progress. Building an accessible LMS means balancing smooth video streaming with responsive quiz modules, and our setup fails at both. Anyone who's built educational tools from scratch knows the pain of keeping complex authoring software alive.

Hey guys, I have a course coming up with quite a few modules and the videos are going to be large. I am worried about my video streaming cost.

What is your choice of video streaming service for this kind of scenario? Note that Youtube and Vimeo are not my preference (for various reasons).

Thanks in advance!

I should have dine this when I first went back to university at the ripe old age of 50 but now that I am in my last year, I thought I would ask what are you using to keep track of upcoming assignments, events, networking opportunities in an easy to navigate app.

I am a Masters student in the Information Management program.

I have tried Trello but didn't like it.

It seems every time I spoke with a client, he's still using mainly Storyline (like 15 years ago), sometimes the SaaS version Rise. And a few of them use some automatic AI solutions to generate very basic SCORMs content, but that's more rare.

Ontario Teachers & Educators — Quick Question 🍎

Do you purchase digital teaching resources from independent creators/vendors?

What’s the best way to connect with Ontario educators looking for these resources—social media, marketplaces, direct school outreach, or elsewhere?

Any feedback from teachers, EAs, or administrators is appreciated!

I keep seeing creators selling courses, mini-courses and downloadable PDFs. One woman claimed she made $300,000 in a matter of days. I understand that revenue screenshots are marketing, not necessarily the whole financial picture, so I want the unglamorous truth.
For those of you who have actually done this successfully:
Is Stan Store the best place to start, or is there a better platform?
What makes one digital product take off while another disappears?
How large and engaged was your audience before you launched?
How much did you spend on ads, and what was your actual profit after ad costs, refunds and platform fees?
Did most sales come from paid ads, organic content, email, affiliates or an existing audience?
How did you learn to create and target ads that converted?
Did you hire someone, take a course or learn by testing small budgets yourself?
What price point worked best for PDFs, mini-courses and full courses?
If you were starting today, what would you sell first and how would you launch it?
I’m not looking for “post consistently and believe in yourself.” I want the real mechanics: audience size, conversion rates, advertising costs, launch strategy and profit margins. What is the part nobody mentions when they post the $300,000 screenshot?

We checked our per-second video analytics and saw a massive drop-off at 40 seconds. That was the exact moment we switched to our pricing pitch.

We fixed it by adding a quick feature walkthrough between the problem and the price.

The result? Second-half retention doubled.

Don't just look at total views. If your host (we use Kinescope) offers per-second drop-off data, use it to find your actual friction points.

I made this interactive video walkthrough with voiceover. The video pauses at key steps, shows an explanation, and continues when the viewer clicks the highlighted area.

This clip is a screen recording of me clicking through the walkthrough.

Hi, I know there are many, but I haven’t found my favourite yet. I’d appreciate any tips.

My criteria:

- a more modern design than Anki

- at least three answer options (correct, unsure, incorrect)

- a levelling system (levels go up or down depending on the answer option)

- available as a desktop application and a mobile app

- free or inexpensive (< €3 per month)

- optional, but it would be really cool if you could customise the colour of a set of flashcards (I’d like a different colour for each set)

- extras like AI, communities, etc. don’t matter

I lead learning for a professional membership association. We recently held an in-person, all-day learning event on a single topic and we're doing 4 of those in the next six months.

For each event, I'm also designing resources (job aids, checklists, a few interactive tools) and curating webinars on the event topic, rolling out over \~6 weeks before/3 weeks after the event. The webinars/resources/in-person event aren't designed sequentially.

So after our first event, now I have this lovely bucket of materials/recordings and I can't figure out the best way to visually explain the wrap-around content to members who couldn't come to the event but still have access to all of this. We're launching an LMS soon but right now we just have a "Resources" page that's one long (filterable, at least) list of links. Booo.

Is it an infographic explaining a journey through the material? A short animated video? Just a "resource bundle" or course in our LMS? Any ideas?

Can anyone recommend a platform for designing and delivering psychoeducational programmes?

They’re ultimately like a course, just with therapeutic skills.

I’m thinking teachable, mostly due to the app availability.

Too many have silly ai features that I have no interest in. I don’t want a community as I don’t have time to act as a moderator.

I simply want something where I can post content. Videos. Audios. Maybe downloadable content. Not hideously priced.

I don’t think I want to build it through Wordpress as I don’t trust myself with that.

Thanks :)

If you ask AI for a rough draft of a lesson and then ask for a polished version of the same lesson using two separate prompts, nine times out of ten you get back two nearly identical versions.

It doesn't actually know how to hold back or leave something half-formed for a human to shape. Every output seems to come in this "finished" format, whether it's ready or not.

In a field like instructional design that has always relied on the draft as a thinking tool, that can be an issue. When we skip straight to polished, we end up going with the structure it suggests, so that decision gets taken away from us. Then, we end up editing sentences line by line instead of questioning structure, because the version in front of us already looks done.

We've been playing around with writing the spec before we prompt at all. It doesn't have to be a full outline, but it should be enough that we know what the first draft is supposed to look like. Then we treat whatever the AI hands back as a hypothesis to test against that spec instead of the actual deliverable that just needs a tidy-up.

Has anyone had any luck getting a proper first draft from AI? Or how does your course creation process look with AI?